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Ho-Chunk. The Ho-Chunk, also known as Hocąk, Hoocągra, or Winnebago are a Siouan -speaking Native American people whose historic territory includes parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Today, Ho-Chunk people are enrolled in two federally recognized tribes, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
The Ho-Chunk Nation speaks Ho-Chunk language (Hocąk), which is a Chiwere-Winnebago language, part of the Siouan-Catawban language family. [2] With Hocąk speakers increasingly limited to a declining number of elders, the tribe has created a Language Division within the Heritage Preservation Department aimed at documenting and teaching the ...
The Winnebago Reservation is on land that originally belonged to the Omaha Nation. On February 21, 1863, Congress passed legislation removing the Winnebago, who call themselves the Ho-Chunk, from a reservation in Blue Earth County, Minnesota to Crow Creek, South Dakota. [4] This location lacked essential resources, leading to a famine that sent ...
Elder members of the Ho-Chunk Nation gathered Tuesday in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, to record the tribe’s language to preserve the history for the next generation.
Winnebago War. Tribal boundaries negotiated at the 1825 Prairie du Chien treaty. The Winnebago War, also known as the Winnebago Uprising, [1] was a brief conflict that took place in 1827 in the Upper Mississippi River region of the United States, primarily in what is now the state of Wisconsin. Not quite a war, [2] the hostilities were limited ...
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska (Ho-Chunk: Nįįšoc Hoocąk) [4] is one of two federally recognized tribes of Ho-Chunk, along with the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. Tribe members often refer to themselves as Hochungra – "People of the Parent Speech" in their own language, a member of the Siouan family.
Portrait by James Otto Lewis, painted at the 1825 First Treaty of Prairie du Chien conference. Waukon Decorah (c. 1780 –1868), also known as Wakąhaga (Wau-kon-haw-kaw) or "Snake-Skin", [1] was a prominent Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) warrior and orator during the Winnebago War of 1827 and the Black Hawk War of 1832. Although not a hereditary chief ...
The attacks at Fort Blue Mounds were two separate incidents which occurred on June 6 and 20, 1832, as part of the Black Hawk War. In the first incident, area residents attributed the killing of a miner to a band of Ho-Chunk warriors, and concluded that more Ho-Chunk planned to join Black Hawk in his war against white settlers.